[Toxic-allergic and viral hepatitis in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis]

Forty four patients with various forms of pulmonary tuberculosis in association with virus hepatitis B (21) and toxic-allergic hepatitis (23) were followed up in the time course of the diseases. There was a marked clinical similarity between toxic-allergic hepatitis and virus hepatitis B which differed in their qualitative indices and duration. Differential diagnosis of virus hepatitis B and toxic-allergic hepatitis was possible on the basis of the clinical signs and routine tests: determination of bilirubin and its fractions in blood, estimation of activity of alanine and aspartate aminotransferases and case follow-up with an account of the epidemiological situation.